nWith 90.2 per cent recovery rate, the doubling rate of Covid-19 cases has gone up to 101.5 days as compared to 28.8 days for rest of the country. Moreover, case fatality rate in the national Capital for the month of August has also improved substantially to 1.4 per cent which is 1.92 per cent with respect to 72.5 per cent recovery rate for the rest of India.
According to Covid-19 health data till August 20, out of a total of 1,57,354 cases in Delhi, 1,41,826 cases have recovered, which shows a significant improvement in the corona situation in Delhi.
As per the State health department report, there is large drop in test positive rate between June 18 and August 16, positivity rate of RT-PCR and Rapid tests both see a sharp decrease.
Analysing the health report, a senior Government official said, the mortality rate in Delhi has also considerably decreased due to the multiple efforts being made by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to bring the death figures to zero.
It may be noted that in a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) held on Wednesday, the Health Department of the Delhi Government presented fresh data regarding the situation of corona in Delhi.
“The figures are not only strengthening the case for Delhi model’s success in defeating corona but also bring relief to the residents of Delhi,” a Delhi Government official said.
Comparing the Covid-19 data, the official said on July 1, the doubling rate of corona cases in Delhi was the same as with the rest of India at 20 days. Since then, the doubling rate of Delhi has been steadily rising. It was 58 days on July 17, around 90 days on August 1, and has currently increased to 101.5 days. In comparison, for the rest of India, the doubling rate has remained between 20 and 27 days since July 1.
On June 20, the recovery rate of Delhi and the rest of India was similar at 55.2 per cent Since then, the recovery rate of Delhi has been consistently higher than the rest of India.
Presenting Covid-19 report and mentioning about Delhi model to combat with the disease, Government official highlighted that the success of Delhi Model is also seen in the sharp decrease in test positivity rate over last two months.
On 18 June, the test positivity rate in Delhi was 24.59 per cent, which reduced substantially to 5.25 per cent on August 16. More importantly, the positivity rate has dropped for both RT-PCR tests and Rapid Antigen Tests. On 18 June, 9,088 RT-PCR tests were conducted of which 2,804 positives emerged — a positivity rate of 30.85per cent.
“In comparison, on August 16, 4,106 RT-PCR tests were conducted of which 434 positives emerged — a positivity rate of 10.57 per cent. Similarly, on 18 June, 3,316 Rapid tests were conducted in Delhi of which 247 positives emerged — a positivity rate of 7.42per cent.””In comparison, on 16 August, 10,882 Rapid tests were conducted in Delhi of which 353 positives emerged — a positivity rate of 3.24 per cent,” quoted data from State health department.
Lauding the efforts of his team, earlier, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal maintained that the main aim of the authorities and the Delhi Hovernment is to save as many lives as possible. “For this, many improvements have been made inside the hospitals such as ramping up the infrastructure, increasing ICU beds and wards, and supplying oxygen concentrators to patients recovering in hospitals as well as home isolation,” Kejriwal had said.